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James McNeill Whistler: An artist's career...

James McNeill Whistler: An artist's career...

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: A structure becomes...

Guillaume Apollinaire: A structure becomes...

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in...

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I was thirty-seven...

I was thirty-seven...

I was thirty-seven when I went to work writing the column. I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social...

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Events that are...

Events that are...

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we...

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Dreams have only...

Dreams have only...

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Source: In...

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People are not...

People are not...

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire...

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Seize the moment....

Seize the moment....

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert...

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Henry Drummond: Therefore keep in...

Henry Drummond: Therefore keep in...

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and...

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Women speak because...

Women speak because...

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself...

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Most of the...

Most of the...

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I...

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I believe in...

I believe in...

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing...

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The free-lance writer...

The free-lance writer...

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Humphrey Davy: When Sir Humphry...

Humphrey Davy: When Sir Humphry...

When Sir Humphry Davy returned from a visit to Paris he was asked how the picture galleries had impressed him. The...

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They tell you...

They tell you...

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it...

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John Wooden: Don't mistake activity...

John Wooden: Don't mistake activity...

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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David Hockney: It is very...

David Hockney: It is very...

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his...

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Very few people...

Very few people...

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the...

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A disaster where...

A disaster where...

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Source: On...

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The tourist who...

The tourist who...

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like...

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